the bees swarm around their hive the scouts have located a new home they pause midair for directions drawing on the scent of scout pheromones the bees guide their old queen to the new place keeping her cool and safe surrounded by her loyal bees…
Category: Miscellaneous
City of Stars
Prompts for the Third Hour Not exactly a text prompt Listen to the following song before writing a poem, you can also play it again and write with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5j1AwBaPtk Night time drive Through the city of stars. How is it so that it floats…
Voice of History
Grand, far too grand For a person such as me Uncultured and ill formed And a sense of inferiority This music flows through silence Like a melodic golden river Echoing from buttressed halls And making my spine quiver It sings of strength, direct and poised…
12 Ways of Looking at Birds
III. Hollow boned, feather light if it weren’t for birds would we have thought of flight? But look – Icarus was feathered and bird-winged And De Vinci’s sketches had a birdness about them. Our flight success is metal and heavy and spews offal…
One String – Hour 3 Prompt
Sometimes I don’t know what to say Wishing I could play more than just one string Sometimes I find it easier to speak with less Using all the voices of just one string
The God In Water
sometimes i think water is God it’s formless it’s tasteless it’s colourless it’s odorless it’s very innocent its very patient Yet none can survive without In our bodies it takes the biggest percentage on our earth it covers the biggest space water! water!water… my God…
Hour 3 – The Dance
Chase me Pretend to resist the temptation The dance of flirtation Circle me Draw me in with a look But you’re the fish on the hook Look into me See beyond the exterior And be blind to the inferior Give in to sin Desire what’s…
40th Birthday Poem (for my firstborn)
Her child-sized cello. How it vibrated in her embrace. Her embrace now overflowing with three children.
#3
What stirs the heart will soothe the soul.
Chello
As you played the Chello My heart said hello At first you made me cry I thought I was going to die And then you picked me up and I could fly I did not realize I could be so high And as you played…